As to your entrance to Reed College as an undergraduate...
No one could think more than the Master did of the great need for capacity,
knowledge and a broad scientific outlook in the service of the Cause, but as
against the hard and dry intellectuals, he wished such knowledge to be coupled
with an intense love for the welfare of humanity.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 20 September 1929 written on behalf
of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; Compilation: ‘Science and
Technology’, compiled by Research Department of the Universal House of Justice
and attached to a Memorandum from the Research Department of the Universal
House of Justice, dated 13-August 1997)